Computational prediction of protein intrinsically disordered region related interactions and functions

B Han, C Ren, W Wang, J Li, X Gong - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) and Regions (IDRs) exist widely. Although without
well-defined structures, they participate in many important biological processes. In addition …

[HTML][HTML] Context-dependent, fuzzy protein interactions: Towards sequence-based insights

M Fuxreiter - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting protein interactions in the cellular environment still remains a challenge in the
AlphaFold era. Protein interactions, similarly to their structures, sample a continuum from …

Digging into the 3D structure predictions of AlphaFold2 with low confidence: disorder and beyond

A Bruley, JP Mornon, E Duprat, I Callebaut - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
AlphaFold2 (AF2) has created a breakthrough in biology by providing three-dimensional
structure models for whole-proteome sequences, with unprecedented levels of accuracy. In …

Combined prediction and design reveals the target recognition mechanism of an intrinsically disordered protein interaction domain

X Hu, Y Xu, C Wang, Y Liu, L Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
An increasing number of protein interaction domains and their targets are being found to be
intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The corresponding target recognition mechanisms …

Theoretical study on the solvation mechanism of camptothecin in ionic liquids

X Zhu, Y Huang, Y Ji - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
To reduce the environmental pollution caused by organic solvents and improve the
extraction efficiency, a range of imidazolium-based ionic liquid (IL) combinations of [Omim]+ …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular simulations integrated with experiments for probing the interaction dynamics and binding mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins

C Ghosh, S Nagpal, V Muñoz - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) exploit their plasticity to deploy a rich panoply of soft
interactions and binding phenomena. Advances in tailoring molecular simulations for IDPs …

Impact of Nonnative Interactions on the Binding Kinetics of Intrinsically Disordered p53 with MDM2: Insights from All-Atom Simulation and Markov State Model Analysis

Q Xu, M Yang, J Ji, J Weng, W Wang… - Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a well-defined tertiary structure but are essential
players in various biological processes. Their ability to undergo a disorder-to-order transition …

Sodium oligomannate electrostatically binds to Aβ and blocks its aggregation

C Zhou, J Zhang, X Luo, F Lian, Y Zeng… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
GV-971 (sodium oligomannate) is a China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA)-approved
drug for treating Alzheimer's disease, and it could inhibit Aβ fibril formation in vitro and in …

Phosphorylation Regulation Mechanism of β2 Integrin for the Binding of Filamin Revealed by Markov State Model

X Hong, K Song, MU Rahman, T Wei… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Leukocyte adhesion deficiency-1 (LAD-1) disorder is a severe immunodeficiency syndrome
caused by deficiency or mutation of β2 integrin. The phosphorylation on threonine 758 of β2 …

Disorder in CENP-ACse4 tail-chaperone interaction facilitates binding with Ame1/Okp1 at the kinetochore

S Shukla, A Bhattacharya, P Sehrawat, P Agarwal… - Structure, 2024 - cell.com
The centromere is epigenetically marked by a histone H3 variant-CENP-A. The budding
yeast CENP-A called Cse4, consists of an unusually long N-terminus that is known to be …